Discover the best tourist attractions of western Ukraine with Maria Zawaski! Maria is a freelance journalist, born on the West of Ukraine, got married to Canada. "Now, when I live abroad, I recommend to all my foreign friends to visit western part of my home country Ukraine. Why the western one - it is because I used to live there, so I am more familiar with that part of the country and I can tell lots of stories about the culture, lifestyle and traditions of Ukrainian West," Maria says

Fall 2009: Ukraine Is Wearing A Flu-Fighting Mask

Fall 2009. Swine flu has spread worldwide and in Ukraine as well. Yeah, now Ukraine wears flu-fighting masks. But looks like Ukrainians did not lose their sense of humor even in this hard time. Look what they did in Lviv, the biggest city of the Western Ukraine! They put face masks even on the city statues! :) This is statue of Diana on the Rynok Square in Lviv. As you see, not only she is wearing mask, but her dogs as well :)I see that these statues are like indicators of what is going on in Ukraine in each particular time. In August 2009 the statues were dressed in traditional Ukrainian wear on the honor of Ukrainian Independence Day. In November 2009 the statues put their masks on :( Such a sad reality, guys :(
Another picture which has impressed me in this flu time it is a photo of newlyweds in Lviv wearing face masks.

Image credit:Yuriy Dyachyshyn/France-Presse

In this case masks are not a joke, but a necessity. Anyway, newlyweds are happy despite of covering their faces. Sometimes love can beat even flu, you know…
And finally, here is a photo of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko wearing flu-fighting mask on their visit to Ivano-Frankivsk.
Ivano-Frankivsk is the one of West Ukrainian cities which suffers badly from flu epidemic as well as Lviv and Ternopil.

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You don’t need visa for travel to Ukraine

If you are citizen of USA, Canada, European Union, Switzerland or Liechtenstein, you don’t need a TOURIST visa for travel to Ukraine. Decree about it was signed in 2005. Tourist visa to Ukraine means that you are going to stay in Ukraine not more than 90 days. So for your short term stay in Ukraine (less than 90 days) you just need to have a travel passport and to buy a ticket, that’s it.
P.S. The same rules work for the citizens of Japan, Andorra, Vatican, Iceland, Monaco, Norway and San Marino. People of these countries don’t need a tourist visa to Ukraine, too.